the connections between Notre Dame and the current Texas A&M program are a plenty we'll hit on them really throughout the week but the biggest is between former Irish defensive coordinator and agie head coach Mike Elco and his former Duke quarterback Riley Leonard now across 20 starts at Duke for Mike Elco the combo pulled about 14 wins and much deeper connection that exists between a head coach and quarterback so Elco knows really better than anyone what Leonard is capable of and the agie coach also knows the ceiling and the challenge of facing this revamped Notre Dame offense it starts with the quarterback who I have some familiarity with obviously Riley Leonard and and everything that he brings to the table but a true D threat dual threat quarterback I think who can hurt you both with his arm and with his legs and so he presents a huge challenge uh in the back field they have always had a lot of running backs and always been able to roll through guys Jeremiah Love steps in this year to be the the guy but um you know we anticipate that being a group of guys that roll back there like it kind of ow has been uh similar to us they've kind of revamped the wide receiver room a little bit with some guys that have have really stepped up in their program uh with with some additions of transfers and so uh I think one of the unique things as you're watching film on openers you're you're watching film from about eight different colleges uh as you get ready for this offense you know you got Duke film on there you got FIU film on there you got Clemson film on there you got Notre Dame film you got LSU film it's just it's one of the unique things about going through these openers thanks for watching here's another story you may like And subscribe to the wsbt22 YouTube channel